[elrepo] Keyboard ceases functioning after install of kmod-nvidia-340xx

[Jeremy Yocum]

Thanks Manuel!

I think you're right, there's something funky happening with my system and
ELRepo must have triggered it.

And I must have misunderstood the post I read about the vault repos.

Or should I just reinstall CentOS — and then steer far far clear of ELRepo
>> for the rest of my days?
>
> Or you could start fresh and try to reproduce. I am quite sure that unless
> the drivers hit some odd BIOS bug ( which is not impossible -- you really
> do not want to get me started on the various BIOS bugs I met over time ) ,
> what you see as explanation for what happened is not actually correct
>
>
I think you're spot on here. I'm going to reinstall and try to reproduce
the problem.

I hadn't even thought of that.

If I can't reproduce the problem then I can chalk it up to "Computers act
weird sometimes."

Re-installing now, I'll let everyone know how it turns out.


— Jeremy

P.S. Get some rest, it's late!


On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 8:01 PM Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>
wrote:

> Sorry, I pressed send before correcting the text and there are plenty of
> typos inside. Probably I should stop debugging my xen issues and mailing
> in the same time at 2:40 AM
> Anyway, please see below a few corrections ...
>
>
>
>
>
> On 6/24/20 2:44 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> >> I just read on an old post that it can take quite some time before
> >> old kernels get moved to the vault repo, so this is probably another
> >> dead end.
> >
> > Whatever post you read is either wrong or you misinterpreted what it
> > said. The content is in vault , you can easily verify by going
> > tohttp://vault.centos.org/8.1.1911/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/ . There
> > never was a distinction between kernel packages and the other
> > packages. All the content it relocated as a whole.
> >
> > And, with my had
> >
> No idea what a "had" is. I meant "hat".
>
>
> > of member of the centos qa team on, I can tell you this: the content
> > on the mirrors is/was NEVER removed prior to being copied to the vault
> > so you would find the required content either in the original place
> > (i.e. on the mirrors ) or in the vault. They even do overlap for a
> > short period of time, existing in both places in the same time.
> >
> >
>
>
> >>
> >> But this was 100% caused by the ELRepo packages. Literally nothing
> >> else changed from when the keyboard worked to when it didn't. I
> >> powered the machine on, I installed the ELRepo packages, I rebooted
> >> and now the keyboard doesn't work. There weren't any other changes
> >> made. Nothing.
> >
> > Except for the fact that the elrepo packages you have installed do not
> > touch the keyboard settings. Basically they just place the driver
> > files provided by NVidia in the apropriate kernel directories and
> > respectively in X's directories, instruct the system to use them and
> > that's pretty much all.
> >
> > And certainly they should not have any effect post install.
> >
> read as : post UNinstall
>
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